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  1. Vive le Front Populaire!

    Vive Le Front Populaire! President Manuel Azana of Spain, and Prime Minister Leon Blum of France, leaders of the Popular Fronts in their respective states at the outset of the Spanish Civil War. By July 1936 social tension in the Second Spanish Republic had reached a breaking point. The...

  2. WI: Chinese divisions to invade Japan in WW2?

    Allied plans to invade Japan at the end of WW2 obviously anticipated heavy casualties. What if instead, the US had opted for a China First strategy? An invasion of Taiwan in summer 1945 would open up the entire Chinese coast to the US Navy, and enable a connection to the Nationalist pocket in...

  3. Allied Alternatives to Operation Dragoon?

    Two months after Overlord, the Allies landed ~200k soldiers in southern France that could perhaps have found better use elsewhere. Churchill as always wanted to attack the Balkans instead. Alternatively, it might have been possible for these forces to attack the Netherlands in an amphibious...

  4. Eleanor Roosevelt, OSS

    "Colonel" Roosevelt landing in Hong Kong, 20 October 1944 - Double V Newsreels Transcript of the First Ladies' Speeches to the Harriet Tubman and Amelia Earhart Brigades, 20 October 1944 I was talking to one of the marine sergeants coming ashore today, about something that'd happened...

  5. AHC: Mongolian SSR

    This shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, either from the beginning or at least by the end of WW2. I guess I just don't really know why it didn't happen in the first place. Might not even necessarily have many butterflies down the road, although I bet it'd impact the USSR-China relationship a...

  6. Could Khrushchev Rehabilitate Trotsky?

    Would Khrushchev, or another plausible Soviet leader after Stalin, have been either able to or interested in rehabilitating the reputation of the arch villain of Stalinism? The post-war USSR actually going Trotskyite is implausible for any number of reasons, but a more pronounced...

  7. Could the USA have joined the League of Nations under FDR?

    Was there any talk about doing this after FDR was elected?
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